On May 21, 2012, at 8:05 AM, Anakreon wrote:
> Hello list.
>
> I use ubuntulinux precise. Special characters such as smart quotes or "--"
> are not typeset as expected. I downloaded and installed the texlive 2011
> distribution in the hope that it would solve the problem. However, the
> problem remains. From suggestions I found on the Internet, a minimal example
> demonstrating the problem is the following:
>
> \documentclass[twoside,a4paper, 12pt]{article}
> \usepackage{fontspec}
> \setmainfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Times New Roman}
> \newfontfamily\greekfont[Script=Greek]{Times New Roman}
> \defaultfontfeatures{Ligatures=TeX}
> \usepackage{polyglossia}
> \setdefaultlanguage{greek}
> \setotherlanguage{english}
> \begin{document}
> Outside ``english'' environment --
>
> \begin{english}
> ``Quotes'' -- inside english environment
> \end{english}
>
> \begin{greek}
> ``Ελληνικό'' -- περιβάλλον
> \end{greek}
>
> ``Ελληνικά''
> \end{document}
>
>
>
> I have attached the resulting pdf file and the original tex example.
> Experiments with other fonts (DejaVu Sans) made no
> difference.<test.pdf><test.tex>
Howdy,
You haven't set the Mapping for the greekfont:
\newfontfamily\greekfont[Script=Greek,Mapping=tex-text]{Times New Roman}
Good Luck,
Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
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